martian boy
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Strategic Steam Reserve. Very hush hush.
Wasn't this blown apart back in the 1980s. It may well have been in The Railway Magazine or Steam Railway. I can't remember what the number of supposed locomotives came to, but I believe it came to over fifty. In the end, all except about three locomotives were actually accounted for.
The problem arose because of the number of steam locomotives being scrapped. Many were supposedly being sold to certain scrap yards, but then not turning up. It seemed that some locomotives were sold elsewhere at the last minute. This was possibly due to the scrapyard being full to capacity.
Another problem was scrapyards not keeping complete records, and records being destroyed when scrapyards closed.